Exclusion Criteria

1. No specific contraindication or any history of hypersensitivity of Clopidogrel or aspirin 2. Patient with active GI bleeding or bleeding tendency or major bleeding history 3. less than 1 year of residual expected life 4. Pregnant or breast-feeding women 5. Other causes, determined by charged physician 6. Patient with definite GERD who needs special treatment 7. Patient who needs to take NSAID (Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug) for more than 2 weeks

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Education

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This project is supported in part by the NIH Specialized Programs of Translational Research in Acute Stroke (SPOTRIAS) Network, and NINDS grant 3P50NS055977 to Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine and UT Southwestern Medical Center.